Washing-machine



(No Model.)

J. CARPENTER.

l WASHING MACHINE. No. 444,813. Patented Jen. 20, 1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT UEEICE.

JAMES HARVEY CARPENTER, OF ULYSSES, NEBRASKA.

WASHINGMIVIACHlNE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,813, dated January 20, 1891.`

Application led August 8, 1890. Serial No. 361,415. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES HARVEY CAR- PENTER,a citizen of the United States, and a improved means for distributing the suds through the clothes and for circulating said suds.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical section of my improved washing-machine; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the machine; and Fig. 3, a perspective detail View of the bottom of the suds-box, the distributing-cone and duct, and the cylinder.

In the drawings, the letter A indicates the suds-box, within which a cylinder C is formed against one side of the box. Said cylinder has a common upwardly-swin gin g clackvalve c3 at its lower end .for the admission of suds into it. A cone a is arranged upon the bottom n.4 of the suds-box and has perforations d3, through which it communicates with the same. Said cone communicates with the pump-cylinder C through a downwardlyinclined flue a2, which communicates with an upwardly-ari ng flue a, opening into thelower end of the pump cylinder. A contracted throata5 is thus formed between the rose or conical spraying or distributing chamber a and the iiue c6, which throat will cause the suds to enter said chamber with a rush and to thus be easily distributed when they are forced out of the pump-cylinder C. A piston h2 fits and slides in the pump-cylinder, and may be reciprocated within the same by means of a piston-rod b. The upper end of said piston-rod is pivotally connected to a lever B, which is fulcrumed at one end by a link b3 upon an arln or bracket a, projecting from the upper edge of the suds-box. A Widely-flaringpounder B is supported in the suds-box from said lever, having a series of perforations b5 in the upper end of its handle b4, by means of which it is pivoted upon a pin or bolt upon the lever.

In operation the clothes to be washed are placed in the suds-box, upon the conical rose or distributing-chamber and beneath the pounder. Vater and soap, soapsuds, or other washing-liquid is lled in the suds-box, and the lever is then rocked to vertically reciprocate the pump-piston and pounder. This will cause the suds to be circulated in the suds-box and pump, and the suds will be forced up and distributed through the clothes at the same time they are pressed down b v the pounder, which combined action of the pump and pounder will cause a thoroughworking `and cleansing of the clothes. The conical form of the perforated rose or distributingchamber will insure a thorough distribution of the suds, and the corresponding shape of the pounder will insure even pressure upon all the clothes by the same.

The foregoing description and accompanying drawings set forth in detail mechanism embodying my invention. made therein provided the principles of construction respectively recited in the following claims are employed.

I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my inventionl. In a Washing-machine, the combination of a suds-box, a pulnp having inlet and discharge in the bottom of said suds-box, and a pounder in said suds-box and connected to reciprocate with and in the same direction as the piston in said pump,.substantially as set forth.

2. In a washing-machine, the combination of a suds-box, a pump, a conical perforated chamber in the bottom of said suds-box and communicating with said pump, and a pounder in said suds-box connected to be reciprocated with and in the same direction as the piston in said pump, substantially as set Changes may bel and with said pmnping-cylinder, a. pounder be my invention I have hereunto set my hlzlwing a flare corresponding to said conical hand this 4th day of August, A. D. 1890. c amber, a pump-piston, and a lever pivoted i T upon the edge of the suds-box and having JAMES HARVEY CARPEBTER' 5 said pounder and pistou pivotally connected Titnessesz to it, substantially as set forth. U. C. GUSS,

In testimony that I Claim the foregoing to G. F. NOBLE. 

